Classmates' chat cracks murder case
( 2004-02-05 14:06) (China Daily)
Acting on a clue obtained while chatting with an old friend, a policeman in
Miyun County on the outskirts of Beijing cracked a four-year-old murder case,
Beijing News reports.
When one of his former classmates mentioned that a drunk man named Yu
Xiaolong once bragged to him of fighting with a cabby during Spring Festival in
2000, Zhen Boyin recalled the unsolved murder case involving a taxi driver four
years ago.
Zhen followed up the clue immediately and found the suspect Yu, who confessed
that he helped his friend Ma beat the cabby to death because of a quarrel over
taxi fare.
The two suspects have been detained.
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